ingredients

For choux pastry:

250 ml of water

100 g butter

100g of flour

4 eggs

1 pinch of salt

For the pastry cream:

1 vanilla bean

20 cl of milk

2 egg yolks

40 g caster sugar

15 g cornstarch

1 passion fruit

30g of candied ginger cut into mini-dice

For glazing:

200 g icing sugar

1 egg white

A few drops of lemon juice

Orange and red food colorings provide some skewered pikes

Steps

The cabbage

The cabbage

Preheat oven to 200 ° C.

Heat the water and butter in a saucepan over low heat, until the butter is melted.

Remove from the heat, sifted flour and salt. Beat vigorously with a wooden spatula until the mixture is homogenous and peel off from the walls.

Add whole eggs one at a time and beat until elastic. With a spoon, place small piles of dough on a parchment paper.

Bake for about 30 minutes and then open the door of the oven and cook for another 5 minutes so that the cabbages dry.

Let them cool on a rack.

Custard

Custard

Prepare it while cooking the cabbage.
Heat 20cl of milk, dilute the starch in a little cold milk, then add to the rest of the milk with the melted vanilla pod and half the sugar.
Stir and bring to a boil.
Remove the vanilla bean and pour over the egg / sugar mixture. Whisk and heat to thicken the cream, then chill in a bowl, cover with a food film.

Prepare the frosting

Prepare the frosting

Beat the egg white with the icing sugar and lemon, separate into 3 bowls and add the dyes of your choice in two of them.

The icing

The icing

Separate the cream in 3, 1 nature, 1 with the pulp of the passion fruit and the rest with the ginger.

Fill the cabbage.

Decorate cabbage with icing

Decorate cabbage with icing

White for vanilla, orange for passion and red for ginger.

Prick 3 different sprouts per skewer.

tips

Sugar and Tips:

To avoid the formation of a skin on the surface of your pastry cream, add a little powdered sugar after cooking, when it cools.

Nutrition Info:

This light dessert is ideal for a festive meal ... prepared with love. Ginger would have aphrodisiac virtues ... it falls well.